Old/New Testament
23 And someone said to Him, “Master, are the ones being saved few?” And the One said to them, 24 “Be striving to enter through the narrow door, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter, and will not be able. 25 From whatever time the house-master arises and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to be knocking on the door saying ‘Master, open for us’, and having responded, he will say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from’— 26 then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught on our wide-roads’. 27 And he will speak, saying to you, ‘I do not know you— where you are from. Depart from me, all you workers of unrighteousness’. 28 In that place, there will be the weeping and the grinding of teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you being thrown outside. 29 And they will come from east and west, and from north and south, and lie back [to eat] in the kingdom of God. 30 And behold— there are last ones who will be first, and there are first ones who will be last”.
Jesus Proceeds Away From Herod, Because a Prophet Cannot Perish Outside Jerusalem
31 At the very hour, some Pharisees came to Him, saying to Him, “Go out, and proceed from here, because Herod[a] wants to kill You”. 32 And He said to them, “Having gone, tell this fox, ‘Behold— I am casting-out demons and performing[b] healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I come-to-the-end[c]’. 33 Nevertheless, I must proceed today and tomorrow and the next day, because it cannot-be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem. 34 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning the ones having been sent to her. How often I wanted to gather-together your children the way a hen does her own brood under her wings, and you did not want it. 35 Behold— your house is being left to you. And I say to you, you will by no means see Me until[d] the time will come when you say, ‘Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord’”.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing